Lord Barrington of Hayles is still going strong at the ripe old age of 43, he came on after 72 minutes in Chesham United’s historic victory over Bristol Rovers. He got a great ovation from the Rovers fans as he scored a load of goals for them nearly 20 years ago.
I remember him at Argyle around 8 years ago, despite being old then he was brilliant for us and formed a great partnership with Sylvain E-bran-Flakes.

Meanwhile Argyle gave the worst performance of their season as they lost 2-0 at home to Carlisle, I think the players were too scared by the prospect of the replay. Oh well, time to concentrate on the league. (And the JPT, playing Millwall in that this Tuesday).

If I may sound old fashioned for a minute every time I hear ‘The (magic of the) Emirates FA Cup’ I get annoyed. Don’t think you can justifiably market the thing as the greatest cup competition in the world yet sell the name.

If you’d indulge the crazy marketing major in me for a second:
Are they (Emirates) doing this promotional bit with the FA Cup, (In part at least) because we won the cup in back to back years, and would benefit their brand for us to do it again? All the synchronized marketing of the “Fly Emirates” brand coming from both Arsenal and the cup seems to be a bit too coincidental for my liking (Mind you, this would all go down the trash if we lose tonight).

I do second what Hank says though, it really disgraceful by the FA to rename the competition. The Premier League was in essence a new product so calling it the Carling, Barclaycard or the Barclays PL is fine. The FA Cup is a century+ year old competition, just call it the FA Cup sponsored by Fly Emirates and no one would bat an eye.

I’m not sure if it’s Arsenal specific given the sheer amount of sponsorship Emirates have in football as a whole (Hamburg, Real Madrid, Milan, going back to Chelsea too in the first few years of the century) but it’s an interesting point, I wouldn’t be incredibly surprised if it’s the case.

If I may sound old fashioned for a minute every time I hear ‘The (magic of the) Emirates FA Cup’ I get annoyed. Don’t think you can justifiably market the thing as the greatest cup competition in the world yet sell the name.

I saw #EmiratesFACup on Twitter yesterday and for a few seconds was genuinely confused, immediately thinking of the friendly Arsenal centric ‘tournament’ held in preseason. I’m sure that’s exactly what the FA would want

Today was pretty excellent. We never looked like scoring but held them at bay with a largely reserve defence, only undone by 2 set pieces (good shout all of you who predicted 5 or 6 by the way). Jamie got on which was great, but having the left wing locked down by 2 academy products in the last 10 minutes was the proudest moment. Goodison lovely as always, shame about the weather. Bit quiet though. Now, on to survival in league two then…

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